Why a Faribault Blanket Is One of Our Favorite American-Made Products This is part of InsideHook’s list of The 100 Best American-Made Products, a celebration of the gear, clothes and goods that make up our lives, and are the life’s work of our fellow Americans. “If you think about American economic history, there was a time not that long ago that the textile manufacturing industry was a cornerstone of our economic activity as a country,” says Ross Widmoyer. “There were hundreds of these mills.” Widmoyer is talking specifically about vertically integrated woolen mills, of which there are now only two left in the entire U.S. He is the president and CEO of one of them, Faribault Mill, which is named after the city in Minnesota where it’s resided since 1865, and which produces one of my personal favorite American-made products: the Cabin Wool Throw Blanket. |